The sound woke me. I ripped Derek's arm off of me and jumped out of bed. "Stay here." I say to Derek whilst listening to that god awful sound and followed it.
Dad and I both ran into Stiles' room who was currently screaming.
Dad held Stiles as he screamed whilst muttering to him that "it was okay." I watched Stiles hold on to dad while screaming and I held my chest at the same time. I sat down beside them and hugged Stiles. "You're okay." I say as he cries silently.
"What were you dreaming about?" I ask him and he takes his head off of my shoulder. "I uh... I don't know. It was like a dream inside a dream and I couldn't wake up." Stiles says and I nod.
"I'm okay now, you guys should go to bed." Stiles says and I kiss his cheek. "Come and get me if you need me." I say to Stiles and he nods.
"I'm sorry." Stiles says as me and dad approach the door. "Don't be sorry." I say to Stiles who was get comfy in his bed. "We don't mind." Dad says and we smile at him softly before closing the door.
"Night." I say to dad and he just nods. "Night sweetheart." He says heading to his room.
I go back into my room and Derek was sat up and looking at me. "Is he alright?" He asks as I get into bed beside him. "Yeah." I say lying down and Derek wraps an arm around me.
****
I woke up the next morning and made breakfast straight away. "I've gotta go." Dad says with a box in his hand. "Alright then." I say shoving his breakfast into a container. I follow him to his car and then hand him his breakfast and coffee.
"Check in on Stiles for me?" Dad asks and I nod. "Sure." I say and then say goodbye to him then head inside.
I go inside and Derek walks down stairs to me. "Morning." He says and I lean up to kiss him. "Morning." I say and take him into the kitchen. I hand him a coffee and his breakfast before continuing to make lunch for Stiles.
"Hey." I say when Stiles comes into the kitchen. "Please don't treat me differently too." Stiles says and I nod. "I won't, but you're okay right?" I ask and he nods.
I hand him his breakfast whilst Stiles stares at Derek. "Is this gonna be a daily occurrence?" Stiles asks Derek. "Until she decides to start staying at mine." Derek says and I roll my eyes.
"Have you got work?" Stiles asks me and I shake my head no. "I would never go in today. In fact, I don't even know why you're going to school." I say and Stiles shrugs.
"Alright, so I'll get the flowers and I'll meet you at dads office straight after work." I say and Stiles shakes his head no whilst chewing some fruit. "There's no point in flowers, they always get stolen. And start sleeping at your boyfriends house." Stiles says and I roll my eyes.
"Lunch." I say and hand him his lunch. "Thanks." He says putting it in his bag. "Be careful." I shout after him as he leaves.
Once me and Derek cleared up from Breakfast I headed upstairs and had a shower. When I got out of the shower, Derek got in.
I got dressed into a black dress and a grey cropped denim jacket. I was half way through doing my hair when Derek came in and was getting dressed.
"Hey so what's happening today?" He asks as I curl my hair lightly. "We're visiting my mom. She died 8 years ago today." I say and Derek looks at me with his eyes widen. "I'm sorry." He says. "It's okay, don't worry." I say shrugging.
After we were ready, me and Derek head to the coffee shop.
"Hey hey hey." I say walking in. "Please save me." I say walking up to Ava. She quickly makes a coffee and hands it to me. "This is why I love you." I say playfully before taking a sip. She then makes one and hands it to Derek, who thanks her.
"You aren't supposed to here at all today." She says and I shrug. "I'm addicted. Plus I love this coffee." I say jokingly and she smiles.
"Get outta here you weirdo." She teases and I smile. "I'll see you later." I say before me and Derek leave.
Once I get in the car my phone starts ringing. Emily. I told her I'd call her back last night.
I had Derek my coffee and take the phone call quickly.
"Hey Em, what's up?" I ask putting my phone on speaker whilst putting my seatbelt on. "You know when you said you didn't feel safe here?" She asks and me and Derek look at each other confused. "Yeah...." I say confused.
"I believe you. Crazy shit keeps happening to your room. Well, it's not your room anymore, but you get me right?" She asks and I nod. "Yeah I get you." I says and she sighs.
"Your windows get opened, I shut them and they magically get opened again. And I woke up the other night to the weirdest thing. So I was home alone because Julian was out of town. I locked the doors and everything, then went to bed. I woke up to some weird noises so like got out of bed and started checking the apartment and the door was wide open." She says and my eyes widen.
"Have you told the police?" I ask her and she sighs. "No." She says and I sigh. "Call the police. I think it's Jake." I say and her breathing hitches. "Okay." She says and ends the call.
Derek looks at me with a raised eyebrow. "She'll be okay, right?" I ask and Derek nods. "Especially if she gets the police involved." He says and I nod.
We get to the loft and we head inside. I look through the cupboards for something to eat. "See this is why we don't stay here. There's no food." I say and Derek just rolls his eyes. "I'll go tonight." Derek says and I smile.
"Only if you stay tonight." He adds as I walk over to him on the sofa. "Nope, not tonight. I've gotta be with the family." I say and Derek nods. "Tomorrow then?" He asks. "You better get some good food in them." I say and he nods. "I will." He says.
****
"I've gotta go." I say standing up. "Call me if you need me." Derek says and I nod. I grab my stuff and then walk down to my car with Derek.
"I'll see you later." He says and I nod and stand on my tiptoes to kiss him. "See you later." I say as he opens my car door for me.
Instead of going home I went to the supermarket to pick up some flowers and from there went to dads office. I went inside and met dad and Stiles, who immediately examined the flowers.
"You know, the last time we brought one of these to her grave, it was stolen the same day. Hundred bucks fown the drain." Stiles says looking at the pink and white flowers.
"Hey, dad?" Stiles asks ans I lean over dad's desk slightly to see dad on the floor. Dsd sits up look at us both. "Hi, what are you doing down there?" Stiles asks. "Working." Dad says before leaning back down on the floor.
"And hey, if somebody wants flowers that badly, they can have them. It's the gesture." Dad says and I take a seat on the sofa.
"Dad, what is all this?" Stiles asks looking at the many boxes of files around his desk and on the floor. "I've been look over some old cases from a more illuminated perspective, if you know what I mean." Dad says and I chuckle.
"Strange sighting of bipedal lizard man sprinting across freeway." Stiles reads out from a file. "Kanima pile." Dad says pointing to a pile.
"Dad you aren't going through all your old cases seeing if any of them had anything to do with the supernatural, are you?" Stiles asks. "I admit the recent opening of my eyes to the greater mysteries of the universe has got me... reassessing." Dad says and I sigh.
"There are at least 100 cases here where I lool at the detail and I can ask myself 'If I knew then what I know now-" "right but are you sure you wanna go down that path?" Stiles asks cutting dad off. "Yeah, it's best to focus on the present, not the past." I add.
"I know, I know. But there's one case in particular I can't get out of my head." Dad says standing up.
"Eight years ago, when I was elected Sheriff of the county, my first offical duty was to tell a man that not only had his wife and two kids died in a car accident, but... as best we could tell, the body of his nine-year-old daughter had been dragged from the wreck by coyotes." Dad says and I stand up.
"You mean dragged and eaten?" Stiles asks looking at the file. "Oh god, that's awful." I say and dad nods. "We didn't find the car until three days after the crash." Dad says and I wince.
"They had driven off the road into a pretty deep ravine. Two bodies that were still in the car were covered in bites and slashes." Dad says and I look down at the file in Stiles hands.
"So you're think bites and claw marks... probably a werewolf attack." Stiles says and I agree with him. "Maybe." Dad says.
"But coyotes, they scavenge right?" Stiles asks and I nod. "So couldn't they have just left the biyes and the slashes?" Stiles asks. "Absolutely. But guess what night the accident occured on?" Dad asks and by any guess, it was clearly a full moon. "The night of the a full moon." Stiles reads from report. "Yeah." Dad says nodding.
"Where are all these going?" Stiles asks looking around at all the files. "Yeah. We, uh... we probably need to talk about that." Dad says looking from thr sign that says 'Agent McCall'
On the way to thr grave yard, dad told us all about Agent McCall and me and Stiles were not happy about it.
When we get to the graveyard, I stand in the middle of dad and Stiles and place the flowers down. I stand back up and look at both boys before holding their hands.
"Hi mom." I start and Stiles head falls to my shoulder. "We miss you, it doesn't feel the same without you here. I can't believe it's been 8 years. 8 years and not a day goes by where I don't miss you. I love you." I say and squeeze Stiles and dads hands.
We stood there for a while till it was unbearable. We said goodbye to her peacefully and headed home.
When I got home I made dinner for them, just pasta because it was simple. Then whilst it was cooking, I text Derek to see if he had food. When he said he had, I didn't have to worry about him.
I fed Dad and Stiles which was followed by Stiles helping me clean whilst I gave dad some scotch. After a while, I sent dad to bed and sat watching friends with Stiles.
When it got late, I locked up downstairs and headed up to bed with Stiles. "Night." We say to each other as we step into our rooms.
When I get into my room, Derek was already asleep on my bed. I get ready for bed, before climbing in beside Derek.
"Hi." I whisper to him. "Shh." He says grumpily making me chuckle softly as I fall asleep facing him.